To get viewers in the mood, IFC has a batch of preview clips, interviews, and Web extras on its site.

For example, comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who appeared in "Portlandia" Season 2 as the waiter at a California restaurant called "Around the World in 80 Plates," and as a clerk in a cell phone store, is in a series of Web videos called "Kumail Tours Portlandia."

In them, Nanjiani visits real Portland businesses, including In Other Words, the feminist community center/bookstore that serves as the filming location for the "Portlandia" skits set in the Women & Women First feminist bookstore.

In another, Nanjiani -- along with Portland actress Ellen Bloodworth, who played memorable characters in the first two "Portlandia" seasons -- visits Northeast Portland's Black Hole Body Piercing & Tattoo.

Be prepared, the conversation in both locales takes an adult-oriented turn, especially at Black Hole Body Piercing & Tattoo, where there's much discussion about piercing of body parts. Male body parts. Ahem.

The IFC Web site also has an interview with Armisen about Season 3. In comparing seasons of the show, Armisen says:

Season one was kind of like a camping trip. We just didn’t even know
what we were, which isn’t a bad thing. We were just figuring out what we
were. During the first season, we hadn’t worked with Jon much and we
were just sorting ourselves out. By season three we were open with
ourselves about what we wanted. This time around we wanted to do more
stories that went from episode to episode.

Watch for my upcoming interview with Brownstein, which will appear as we get closer to the Season 3 "Portlandia" premiere.